Our final ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar of term took place last week. Tom Crewe, of Pembroke College, Cambridge, spoke on ‘The politics of image and the image of politics: visual representations of politicians and portraiture in the press, c.1840-1906’. His paper was based on one chapter on his upcoming PhD thesis, due to be completed in the next year. Crewe began by noting that … Continue reading Parliaments, politics and people seminar: Tom Crewe, ‘The politics of image and the image of politics’